"A comic investigation of city morals and manners develops into a dark critique of women's vulnerability in bourgeois marriage." -- Ros Ballaster, Mansfield College, Oxford University
"This readable edition of Haywood's blockbuster novel is an important addition to our understanding of the history of the English novel." —Paula Backscheider, Auburn University
Published together for the first time, Eliza Haywood's Anti-Pamela and Henry Fielding's An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews are the two most important responses to Samuel Richardson's novel Pamela. Anti-Pamela comments on Richardson's represen